incorporating dejaMoo: best of breed bull…

What language to learn next?

Decisions, decisions.

Where to start?

I've loved learning new programming languages since I was a whipper-snapper with an XT and GW-BASIC on a floppy - how fondly I remember the simple pleasures of cycling the frequency on the PC speaker to play scales and arpeggios (sort of). I digress....

There are quite a few languages in my like to (re)learn list at the moment, and because I find it increasingly difficult to make a decision of any form, I can't decide which road to choose (or even if it matters).

Re-visit Lisp?

Lisp has held a special place in my heart ever since I took Ann Nicholson's artificial intelligence course in the the mid '90s.

I'd been developing in C and on occasion C++ for a while, so Lisp completely blew my mind. I only got to write a couple of commercial applications with Lisp and have felt jilted ever since.

Time to re-visit Lisp?

Get parallel with Erlang?

RabbitMQ looks very interesting, and the Pragmatic Programmers seem to have embraced Erlang. Besides, how can I do anything but melt in the face of this appeal to my inner geek:

Erlang is a language used by people in-the-know (just like Ruby was a few years ago).

Hmmm...

Haskell?

Last cab off the rank is Haskell, which for some reason stimulates my boffin gene. Haskell definitely falls into the just because category.

Any thoughts?

Comments (3) § Posted by Cam MacRae in • on 05 June 2007
AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Comments 3

  1. liquidsquid wrote:

    Erlang. Erlang. Erlang. Erlang. Erlang. Erlang.

    Posted June 6, 2007 at 10:54 a.m.
  2. Zani wrote:

    Agree with liquidsquid that you should look at erlang. It's fun to learn too.

    Posted June 8, 2007 at noon
  3. Cam wrote:

    I've started learning erlang. Picked up the book from the prag prog guys too.

    Posted June 8, 2007 at 2:15 p.m.

Comments are now closed.

Tweet Tweet

Stuffs

Thanks for dropping in.

This is the personal website of Cam MacRae. Any opinions expressed here are my entirely own, and have jack to do with my employer.

It's the product of a little elbow grease, the news.ycombinator noprocrast feature, and a healthy dose of Django.

A Django site.

Previously

  1. Look over there
  2. For a bunch of capitalist pigs this lot sure behave like commie bastards
  3. When I was a wee nipper
  4. History meme
  5. Oracle comes to the party
  6. Text processing fun Pt 2.
  7. "D" is not D
  8. A question of succession
  9. Great Firewall of Australia
  10. Best tech bits of 2007
  11. A trip to the library
  12. Text processing fun
  13. Python Indentation
  14. Flex or Javascript + xhtml
  15. Parallel Python

Tags

  1. D (1)
  2. SOA (1)
  3. ajax (2)
  4. apollo (1)
  5. architecture (1)
  6. bemused (1)
  7. blog (1)
  8. blogs (2)
  9. carsales (1)
  10. collaboration (1)
  11. css (1)
  12. django (9)
  13. duels (1)
  14. email (1)
  15. erlang (3)
  16. findability (1)
  17. flex (3)
  18. folksonomies (1)
  19. funny (2)
  20. geek (20)
  21. google (3)
  22. innovation (1)
  23. iphone (1)
  24. javascript (4)
  25. jython (1)
  26. life (5)
  27. lighttpd (1)
  28. lisp (1)
  29. mac (1)
  30. macbook (1)
  31. marketing (1)
  32. open-source (1)
  33. oracle (2)
  34. python (6)
  35. rails (2)
  36. ruby (1)
  37. silverlight (1)
  38. skitch (1)
  39. startups (4)
  40. tech (21)
  41. twitter (1)
  42. usability (1)
  43. web20 (6)
  44. work (3)
  45. yui (2)
Aussie Blogs |  Feed

Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.